Monopoly’s Iron Game Piece Goes to Jail; New Cat Piece Collects $200

The children’s and obnoxiously competitive adult’s treasured board game of Monopoly will replaced its (apparently deeply, viscerally hated?) iron game piece with a tiny, silvern cat. The changes were the result of an Facebook contest concerning which piece should go and which piece should replace it. In other words, breaking: Internet heavily favors cat.

The options for other potential replacement pieces included only a “helicopter, robot, diamond ring, and acoustic guitar,” per The Los Angeles Times. But would the cat have been so popular with online voters if they could have voted for, say, the word “FIRST!”? Or a guy singing Sade to his pet? A topless Kate Upton figurine? An Onion article about Joe Biden? That gymnast with the sassy smile from the most recent Olympics? Or Hillary Clinton texting? What we’re asking is: did the cat win some sort of Internet-meme primary before entering the general election?